Diary

Joint Meeting with the Consultancy Specialist Group

Posted by Ian Burgess on August 27, 2010 at 9:36 pm

Just working on my presentation for the BCS – Consultancy Specialist Group, (looking for a visual to explain the connection between evolution and revolution). The other presenter is Alan Fowler from Isochron, author of the book “Accelerating Business and IT Change“. The event is on the 7th September at the School of Informatics in Edinburgh. [...]

Yesterday in Dnepropetrovsk

Posted by Ian Burgess on July 12, 2010 at 7:23 am

See more at http://www.gorod.dp.ua/news/news.php?id=55680 and some of Anton’s photos on http://www.ianburgess.me.uk/en/photos/dnepropetrovsk-flooding-072010

Seafarers UK – White water rafting

Posted by Ian Burgess on June 10, 2010 at 2:29 pm

Today  I meet with Ewan Hastings from Seafarers UK he was explaining their “Corporate Partnerships” and some of the events they have lined up in the future, as a result I am looking to get a team together for the White Water Rafting event is anyone interested?

SymetrIQ at the Cloud Computing World Forum

Posted by Ian Burgess on June 2, 2010 at 9:00 am

Today has been a good day as SymetrIQ has been put forward for an award in the category of “Best Cloud Service” at the Cloud Computing World Forum which will take place on the 29th of June at the Olympia Conference Center in London.

Agile Product Development

Posted by Ian Burgess on May 29, 2010 at 1:19 pm

The Slides from my recent presentation to the BNS on Agile Product Development. Agile Product Development View more presentations from ianburgess.

The Future of the IT Services Firm

Posted by Ian Burgess on May 15, 2010 at 6:29 pm

The presentation from the Drowning Director event for the JCF hosted by the BCS. The Future of the IT Service Firm View more presentations from ianburgess.

Customer Focus

Posted by Ian Burgess on May 1, 2010 at 7:13 am

  This week we meet with a Andy and Simon from CWL systems, on the outside they seem a very focused IT consulting and implementation shop, what completely changed my view of this was the single slide displayed on a screen in their office:  Customers are not dependent on us – We are dependent on [...]

The Drowning Director

Posted by Ian Burgess on April 11, 2010 at 2:15 pm
BCS The Charterd Institute for IT

I have been asked to Speak at the BCS Consultancy group event on the 12th of May the event is entitled “The Drowning Director”. The Main Speaker is Geoff Codd author of the The Drowning Director and a Fellow of the BCS.

iPad Parody

Posted by Ian Burgess on March 14, 2010 at 7:42 pm

This is possible the best one out their at the moment:

Edinburgh University MBA Panel – Careers in Consultancy

Posted by Ian Burgess on March 5, 2010 at 10:44 pm

I was invited as Aidan Hetherington to take part in the panel for the IBC the other panel members were Alex MacPhie, Jeremy Webster and Scott Mcarthur. It was good to see the enthusiasm and drive of the future of the consulting industry and grow the links between Edinburgh University and the IBC. Edinburgh Uni [...]